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Cybersecurity’s Tower of Babel: Why we are still lost in translation

When leadership teams and security functions operate in different languages of risk, critical signals might be dismissed until the problem has escalated

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    • As more advanced AI models enter real-world testing, organisations are being forced to contend not just with more sophisticated threats, but with the speed at which they unfold.
    • As more advanced AI models enter real-world testing, organisations are being forced to contend not just with more sophisticated threats, but with the speed at which they unfold. PHOTO: UNSPLASH

    Chua Zong Fu

    Published Mon, Apr 20, 2026 · 07:00 AM

    BUSINESS leaders like to believe that in a crisis, the enterprise will instinctively pull together. Experience suggests otherwise.

    The biblical story of the Tower of Babel is a useful reminder: Projects do not fail because of a lack of ambition; they fail because people stop understanding one another.

    Today’s corporate world is living out a digital version of that myth. Boards, leadership teams and IT departments confront the same cybersecurity threats, but describe them in mutually unintelligible languages.

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